Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

-- David Hume 大卫休姆

理性是，也只应该是激情的奴隶，除了服务和服从激情之外，永远不能伪装成任何别的职务。

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

成年人永远不会自己理解任何事情，而孩子们总是没完没了地向他们解释事情是令人厌烦的。

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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

任何比天堂小的东西都让我们厌烦，因为只有天堂比我们的心大。

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

激情是唯一能说服人的演说家。

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It is better for the eye to die than the heart.

眼死总比心死好。

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